A judge in Denver on Tuesday sentenced a man already facing 12 years in a New Jersey prison to 43 months in a federal lock-up for wire fraud.

In sentencing William Silvi, 45, who has appealed his New Jersey conviction for insurance fraud, U.S. District Judge Wiley Daniel said the two sentences will be served separately.

In 2010, a jury in New Jersey cleared Silvi and his brother-in-law, Daniel Tunks, both of Colorado Springs, of conspiring to kill Silvi’s father, William Marcucci, in Saddle Brook, N.J.

But the same jury found Silvi, who helped his father buy insurance policies shortly before he was shot to death and later filed claims with several insurance companies, guilty of insurance fraud.

The insurance policies paid out only in the case of murder or accidental death, Assistant U.S. Attorney Pegeen Rhyne told Daniel.

He was brought to Colorado after being sentenced in Superior Court in Hackensack in 2011, and has been locked up here for almost two years.

He pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Denver to bilking various financial institutions and commercial lenders in connection with residential mortgage loans.

Silvi’s criminal record in Colorado includes convictions for burglary and criminally negligent child abuse resulting in death.

Under federal sentencing guidelines, Silvi could have received up to 57 months. The prosecution recommended a lower sentence because he provided information on an attempted murder while he was in Denver County Jail on the mortgage fraud charge.

Silvi told Daniel that though he has committed felonies in the past, he has changed. “I saw two gang members try to kill a federal witness” at the jail, he said.

The information he provided led to convictions for retaliating against a federal witness, Rhyne said.

“The normal me would have stayed away from it, said it’s not your business, but I couldn’t do it. They would probably have gotten away with it. I have never stepped up like that.”

He said that while he was in a New Jersey jail waiting to be tried for murder, he prayed and promised to change if God gave him the “strength to prove my innocence,” he said. “God answered my prayers …. Since the age of 40 I have done the right thing, I have stepped up.”

At his 2011 sentencing in New Jersey, Silvi denied wrongdoing, according to The Record newspaper. “I want to speak to the people of New Jersey. I did not commit a crime in your state, people. I am an innocent man.”

A general assignment reporter for The Denver Post, Tom McGhee has covered business, police, courts, higher education and breaking news. He came to The Post from Albuquerque, N.M., where he worked for a year and a half covering utilities. He began his journalism career in New York City, worked for a pair of community weeklies that covered the west side of Manhattan from 14th Street to 125th Street.

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